468 ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN SIKHIM, 



134.--Aicedo bengalensis, Gm, 



Common in the Sikhim Terai, and also about Saharunpore. 

 I saw number of Kingfishers in Sind, but had not time to 

 shoot one. 



135 gwat— Alcedo meninting,* Horsf. 



This is not uncommon in the Sikhim Terai. 



223.— Arachnothera magna, Hodgs. 



Below Darjeelino; towards the Teesta, and about Punka- 

 baree, towards the foot of the Himalayas, this kind is common. 

 It is easily called by the bamboo whistle afore described. 



234.— Cinnyris asiatica, Lath. 



The yellow parts of Sind examples are grey white ! In- 

 stead of being black and yellow, as here in winter plumage, 

 they are black and white. I am almost sure this Sind 

 species is not asiatica, and the bill too is shorter. I shot 

 G. asiatica in full plumage in the Sikhim Terai, in the first 

 week of January. 



253. — Dendrophila frontalis, Horsf. 



This is common about Punkabaree in Sikhim. 



258.— Lanius tephronotus, Vig. 



Near Darjeeling, and rather common down towards the 

 Teesta River. 



278.— Dicrurus albirictus, Hodgs. 



This was not uncommon at Salbaree in the Sikhim Terai. 

 There is also another species there, with longer tail, and not 

 havino- the white rictal spot. I procured specimens of each. 

 Both breed there. The long-tailed bird is not the Himalayan 

 North-West bird, D. waldeni, Beavan, but D. longus, Horsfield, 

 referred to in Jerdon^s Birds of India, Vol. III., page 871.t A 

 male was 12| inches long; wing, 6-15; tail, 7-25. 



294.— Chelidorhynx hypoxantha, Bly. 



This little Flycatcher was very plentiful in the Sikhim woods. 

 It is very tame. 



* Probably the form wHcb most nearly approaches A.beavani, vtie S. F,, IV., 287, 

 383; VI., 84.— A. O. H. 



f Mr. Brooks overlooks all that has been written on this group. Tl. longua, Tern. 

 (not Horsf.) is the Javan form. The birds he refers to, if separated, must stand as 

 cathoeca, Swinh. — A, O. H, 



